To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's report, Estimating the impact of CSA case closure and charging, published in August 2012 and its conclusion that there will be a full annual compliance rate for direct pay arrangements of only around 28 per cent on charging to use the statutory collection once service commences, whether he plans to review his Department's method of counting the number of child maintenance cases with a positive maintenance outcome.

Using current definitions (as applied to CSA Maintenance Direct cases), Direct Pay cases will be considered compliant unless one of the parents contacts us to say that their arrangement is no longer working.

However, we are reviewing the current methodology used to derive the number of child maintenance cases with a positive maintenance outcome and it is our intention, over the coming months, to implement a revised methodology. Any change in measures will be communicated and reported in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.